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>Blitz hook
lol, don't be disingenuous. I'm not saying he's particularly weak but I don't think he's ever been truly strong either. He's a burst bruiser who's very weak to being poked out and can be easily played around with if you just manage his W which actually has a pretty massive cooldown. Pair this with just how many top laners with executes there are (Garen R and Cho R instantly kill Kled if he dismounts for instance, Darius R is another big threat as well, Urgot, etcetra) and he might even go from being average to being bad just because of how rough the landscape is for him. He's versatile and can engage/disengage at will for the most part but he doesn't really have any wallhops (dismounted Q wallhop is rough and unreliable) or sustain to compensate for this.
All in all, be honest, he's ALWAYS been rough and this rework is just making him rougher. It was a mistake and should be completely reverted as well imo. He was already bad as was and them trying to make his dismounted form its own thing, which imo is the point of this rework, was a bad direction to take him in and is just gonna lead to him being in the patch notes very regularly in the future unless they just revert it and leave him be.